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THA W TRIAL
NEAR; 'CRAZY'
HIS DEFENSE
"INSANITY" TAKES PLACE OF
"UNWRITTEN LAW"
MEMBERS OF FAMILY RALLY TO
HIS SUPPORT
Chorus Girl Wife of Defendant Will
Again Go on Witness Stand and
Relate Sordid Details
of Her Life
By Associated Pres».
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.— One week from
tomorrow Harry K. Thaw will be called
a second time before a Jury to make his
defense to the charge of having murdered
Stanford \\ hlte There have been several
postponments of the date of the second
hearing of thi» noted case, but it Is said
now there will be no further delay.
It is announced that Mrs. William
Thaw, mother of the defendant, is ex
pected in the city by next Saturday. Mrs.
Thaw has been in poor health, it la
said, but believes she will be able to come
on to be with er son during the opening
hours of his second fight for life and
freedom.
¦ Other members of the family circle, In •
eluding Mrs. George L. Carnegie, Harrys
sister, > and ,"! Joslah and ¦. Edward ( That"
his i brothers, ¦ are ' also ; expected to reach
the city during the week and will remain
throughout the trial. ¦: The countess of
.Yarmouth.- the defendant's sister, . is at
i present 'in 1 England, ' and is . not expected
; to ! attend •; Jhe second : trial.
• Evelyn Visits Tombs
Mis. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, who has
been a daily visitor at the Tombs ever
sine)! the first Thaw jury disagreed, save
recently when she was ill for a few days,
will, ot course, be one of the first arrivals
In tho courtroom on Monday next.
There have been many rumors as to
the plans of the defense for the second
hearing of the case, and it has been pre
dicted that an ent-rely new line of action
might be followeu. It can be authori
tatively stated, however, that tho defense
will again be the same, that Evelyn Nes
bit Thaw will again relate her story to
the jury, and that an Imposing array of
expert alienists a. ill again undertake to
establish the theory that Thaw was In
sane at the time he killed Stanford
White In the Madison Square roof gar
den, but has £o far recovered his mental
balance since that time as to be no
longer a menace to the community, and
therefore Is entitled to his freedom.
In the coming trial, it is declared, there
will be no mention made of a higher, or
imwritten, law, but the defense will ad
here strictly to a plea of legal Insanity
at the time the act was committed.
There were mistakes made at the first
trial which It will be the attempt of
Thaw's attorneys studiously to avoid
during his second hearing.
In the expert testimony, for instanca,
they have been able to separate th«
wheat from the chaff, and will only offer
that which proved most effective before.
And having once felt the sting of Dis
trict Attorney Jerome's skillful cross
examination on all phases of the diseases
affecting the brain, several of the Thaw
experts will be in a much more secure
position than they were at the first trial.
when the prosecuting officer's wonderful
knowledge of medicine fairly amazed,
and In one case completely dumfounded
a witness.
District Attorney Jerome will, ot
course, be prepared to combat the testi
mony of the insanity experts. His rormld
able hypothetical question, which wa3
asked before in omnibus style to nine
state experts in a row, and upon which
they based opinions entirely opposite to
those entertained by the experts for the
defense, will be taken out of the archives
and polished up for use in rebuttal.
State Has New Witness
The state's direct case will again be
very brief. Jt wil have added to It the
testimony of James Clinch Smith,
brother-in-law of Stanford White, who
met and talked with Thaw the night of
the tragedy. Mr. Smiths testimony,
which Mr. Jerome regards as highly im
portant, and as showing a Cjool, calcu
lating state of Thaw's mind, but a few
minutes' before he fired the fatal shot,
was taken before in rebuttal, having
been discovered after the trial was weil
under way.
Martin W. Littleton of Brooklyn, who
nominated Alton B. Parker for presi
dent at the last Democratic national con
vention, will act as leading counsel. Ho
will have the asistance of Daniel O'Reilly
and A. Russell Peabody, both of whom
went through the first trial. O'Reilly ;s
ill with the grip, but probably will be
well again when the trial starts.
Thaw Is looking forward anxiously lo
the beginning of h.s new fight. He feels
that all chance of further delay Is past,
and will enter the court room with tho
same confidence of acquittal which has
marked his attitude from the start. The
work of securing a jury will be more or
less laborious and may occupy two or
three weeks. The special venire sum
moned for the case numbers 300. It has
been definitely decided that the jury will
bo locked up throughout the trial.
WOULD LEGALIZE MARRIAGE OF
PRINCESS AND MUSIC TEACHER
By Associated Press.
FLORENCE, Dec. 29.-Th« authorities
have been asked to legalize the marriage
of Enrlce ToselH, the music teacher and
the Countess Montignose, divorced wife
of the crown prince of Saxony, which was
celebrated September £5 in London.
The authurlties so far have not officially
legalized a divorce which was not ob
tained through the Italian courts, and it
is expected that the present request will
not be granted, the courts having already
refused to recognize marriages contracted
abroad by Italians who became foreign
citizens for the purpose of obtaining a
divorce.
SECRETARY TAFT IS TO
MAKE SPEECHES IN BOSTON
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. - Secretary
Taft left here at 6:46 this afternoon for
Boston, where tomorrow he will deliver
three addresses, the most important be
ing at night before the Merchants and
Manufacturers' association.
In the morning he will speak at a meet
ing of Boston ministers and In the after
nooif he will address the members of the
Elysian club. He will return to Wash
ington New Year's day.
Change In Italian Cabinet
By Associated Press.
ROME, Dec. 29.— An Important change
Is about to occur in the Italian cabinet,
with the retirement of the minister of
war. Gen. Vlgano. Both the retiring min
ister and the premier, Slgnor Glolltti,
have suggested to the king to appoint as
Vlgano's successor a civilian, a recommen
dation that is likely to be carried Into
effect. It Is believed a civilian would be
better able to place before the parliament
the grave military problems that are
now under discussion.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1907.
GRAND JURY TO CONTINUE
INVESTIGATION OF BANK
By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29— The grand
jury will resume the Investigation of the
California Safe Deposit & Trust com
pany tomorrow. Assistant District At
torney Cook hopes to complete another
stage In the case and predicts that more
Indictments will be returned.
Tho investigation last week was con
fined to tracing the big loans made by
the California Safe Deposit & Trust com
pany under the regime of Brown, Bart
nett and Treadwell. The grand jury's
task has not been so much the question-
Ing of witnesses as It has been the ex
amination of tho books of the bank and
the reports of the experts who are try
ing to unravel the tangle of loans and
counter loans which, from a superficial
study, seem to have been a distinguish
ing feature of the financial methods ot
Brown, Bartnett, Treadwell and the
others.
GEORGIA READY
FOR "DRY " SEASON
With Advent of the New Year First
Southern Prohibition State Will
Prohibit Sale of
Liquor*
By Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Ga., Dec. 29.— With the ad
vent of the new year the law preventing
the manufacture or sale of intoxicating
lquoi.-, passed by the last legislature,
becomes effective, making Georgia the
first of the southern states to be placed
in the prohibition column.
Tho law is very drastic in its pro
visions, and prevents the giving away or
selling or keeping of liquors in public
places, and imposes a tax of $500 OB clubs
whose members are allowed to keep
drinks of an intoxicating nature in their
individual lockers.
Notwithstanding the passage of this
law, there is some agitation to have it
declared unconstitutional. This action
may be brought In the federal courts in
the course of the month.
It was claimed today that Atlanta
alone would lose in license taxes $135,-
G62, and that the property value of
saloons and breweries here which will
go out of business on January 1 is from
$1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
For the rest of the state, the property
values involved are about $5,000,000.
It is estimated that 10,000 persons will
lose their employment when January 1
rings its bell on the sale of Intoxicating
liquors.
That the prohibition law will be en
forced there is no question. Governor
Smith and court officials have been frank
In their statements that they intend to
enforce the law.
Many of the more prominent clubs
have declared they ' will go one better
than the law, and prohibit the keeping
of liquor within their doors.
GERMAN OFFICER HELD
FOR MURDER OF COMRADE
Captain Stationed Near Russian Fron.
tier Arrested on Charge of
Having Slain a
Major
By Associated Press.
BERLIN, Dec. 29.— Capt, yon Goeblin,
stationed near the Russian frontier, has
been arrested In connection with the
death of Maj. yon Schoenbeck, a brother
officer, who was shot dead on Friday.
From the appearance of the body and
the fact that a fully loaded revolver lay
beside it, it was presumed that Maj. yon
Schoenbeck, returning home late at night,
heard some one descending the stairs
leading from his wife's rooms. Drawing
his revolver, he went to meet the intru
der, who, however, killed him before he
could flre.
Capt. yon Goeblin, after his arrest, ad
mitted he was in the major's ,house tho
night before the body was found, but
he declared he was innocent of the crme.
KING'S NEW YACHT
MARVEL OF COMFORT
LONDON, Dec. 29.— King Edwarda
new turbine yacht, the Alexandra, is
now nearly finished, and will undergo
her steam trials about the end of Jan
uary These will be searching and
thorough and will take several days to
complete.
Should the trials prove satisfactory
the vessel will then be handed over to
a navigating party, who will bring her
to Portsmouth, where she will be fitted
so as to be ready for the king's first
cruise, which will probably be during
Cowes week.
Those who have had an opportunity
of inspecting the vessel declare she Is
a marvel of comfort and convenience.
PARTY WILL EXPLORE
INTERIOR OF BRAZIL
By Associated Pres*.
BOSTON, Dec. 29. — The exploration
of the vast unknown regious in the
southern watershed of the Amazon
river, between the fourth and tenth
parallers. Is the object of an expedition
which is being organized in this city
under the supervision of G - eorge M.
Boynton.
It is expected to begin operations at
Pernambuco next July, and through
five relay expeditions in five successive
years to open the region which 1*
known to contain great commercial
resources.
The co-operation of the Brazilian
government and the Royal Geographi
cal society of London has been ob
tained, and good progress in getting
donations of a financial nature is an
nounced.
An escort of Brazilian soldiers will
accompany the expedition as the coun
try is very wild and the Indians aro
hostile.
Investigating Greek Riots
MARYSVILLE, Dec. 29.— Greek Consul
Eggert is here investigating a riot on
Christmas day when a band of Greeks
swooped down upon a restaurant con
ducted by countrymen and beat a dozen
nearly to death, two of whom are dying.
Lusitania Sails
By Associated Press.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 29.— The Cunarder
Lusltania sailed at 11:05 this morning.
Among the passengers on board were
Sir Thomas R. Dewar, Sir Charles and
Lady Ross and Baron Ferdinand Van
Hoffman.
Bishop Consecrated
ROME, Dec. 29.— Thomas FT Kennedy,
rector of the American college, was con
secrated as titular bishop of Adrlanapo
lis today.
TO THE HACKS
Steam trains to the races 12:15 p. m. and 12:45
p. m. ; 30 minutes. SaaU for everyona. SOUTH
ERN PACIFIC, «00 South Spring street, ur
Arcade station.
SUNDAY CLOSING
FIGHT STILL ON
Another Theater In Kansas City De,
cides to Close ' ->ora — Grand Jury
to Indict All Violators
of Law
By Associated Press.
KAN3A9 CITY. Mo., Dec. C9.— The clos
ing of the Grand opera house, which Is
managed by A. Judah, who has) been the
leading spirit in the opposition to the
Sunday closing policy of Judge William
H. Wallace of the criminal court, was
the feature of the situation In this city
today.
All other theaters, except the Willis-
Wood and the Majestic, which capitulated
two Sundays ago, were open today aa us
ual, making It apparent that the contest
between Judge Wallace and the theaters
is to be continued indefinitely.
The present grand Jury, which favors
Judge Wallace's position, will return in
dictments next week against persons who
worked In theaters and others who vio
lated the Sunday closing law today.
Judge Wallace ha& announced that an
other grand jury with the oame convic
tions regarding the Sunday law will be
called, and that there will be no cessation
In the Sunday closing campaign. Deputy
marshals were busy today gathering evi
dence to be submitted to the grand Jury.
GOVERNOR OF COLORADO
ORDERS LAWS ENFORCED
By Associated Press.
DENVER, Dec. 29.— 1f. the orders
issued by Governor Henry Buchtel are
obeyed by the district attorneys of the
state the laws on the statute books
against gambling and in regard to the
liquor traffic will be vigorously en
forced in the future.
The governor in his proclamation In
structs all district attorneys and peace
officers to vigorously enforce these
laws and announces he has arranged
with Attorney General Dlxon to prose
cute all violators if tho local officers
do not act.
CHURCH TO HEAL BY
CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
Bishop Fallows of Chicago Says the
Body as Well as the Soul
Must D 1 Minis,
tered To
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 29. -Christian psychol
ogy as a cure for disorders due to the
action of the mind will be undertaken by
St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal church, ac
cording to an announcement made by
Bishop Samuel Fallows from the pulpit
tonight.
"In. my opinion the church, to save It
self." said Bishop Fallows, "must begin
to minister to the bodies as well as to
the souls of the American people. I now
announce that St. Paul's Reformed Epis
copal church, at any rate, will begin the
work of Christian psychology In the near
future with" the assistance of some of the
leading neurologists of Chicago."
Christian psychology, as explained by
Bishop Fallows, works hand In hand with
the medical profession, and Is not to be
used for the cure of organic diseases;
also persons suffering from such ailments
will be aided as far as possible by sug
gestion, faith and persuasion. Such ner
vous disorders as hypochondria. Insomnia,
nervous dyspepsia, melancholia, hysteria,
neurasthenia, drug and liquor habits, Irri
tability, worry, anger, fear, weakness of
will are to be subjected to the psycho
logical treatment.
Bishop Fallows said that he had been
Impelled to take this step by the success
attending similar treatments by the Bos
ton Immanuel church during the last
sixteen months.
LITTLE GOLDFISH PROVES
A COSTLY INVESTMENT
FOR 'GOLDEN HOME BEAUTIFIER'
MAN PAID ONLY $1.25
But the Menagerie Man Had Con.
vinced Him He Must Have Castle,
Gravel, Seaweed, Fish
and Food
KANSAS CITY, D*C. 29. — "Did you
ever try to buy a goldfish?" a weary
appearing man asked a friend the other
day. "If you never did then don't!
I'm not strong for the menagerie and
aquarium features of a household my
self, but my wife is. Ever since I
stopped the menagerie collection when
it reached three cats, a terrier, two
canary birds and a Me^can redbird,
she's been begging me to get a goldfish.
Well I concluded this morning that I'd
buy one. The bird and fish dealer was
very reasonable. He had all sorts of
goldfish from 25 cents apiece up to
$1.25 for the real fancy kind. It
seemed easy to me so I 'bit' for a dol
lar and a quarter.
•' 'Now,' said the man, 'you need a
globe to put the fish, in.'
" 'Yes, I suppose so," I said. 'I hadn't
thought of any globes. He told ma
they had all sorts of globes from $1.50
to $10 but that I shouldn't buy a cheap
globe for such a fine specimen of gold
fish. We compromised on a $5 water
holder that was guaranteed not only to
furnish the fish with a good comfort
abe home, but enhance its beauty, I
don't know how many per cent.
"I started to tell him where to send
the goldfish and the globe, but he In
terrupted me.
" 'Surely,' he 'you want some
seaweed to place in the water. Fish
love it and it looks so beautiful.'
"I looked surprised, I guess, but I
bought a bunch of seaweed and then,
before I could leave, he told me about
the flsh food that I had to have if the
flsh were expected to live long with
the family. I got that. Then he
sprung the castle racket I never
heard of a castle for flsh, but he in
sisted that no family of any preten
sions ever attempted to keep a gold
fish without having a castle for it in
the globe. After purchasing the castle
I figured that my $1.25 goldfish was
past the $10 mark and I was sorry I'd
started.
"Was that iNI? Well, I should say
not. Before I got away I had to buy a
china swan to float on the surface of
the water to keep the flsh company, a
thermometer to test the temperature
of the water night and morning and a
new kind of flsh medicine which is sup
posed to be sprinkled In the little fish's
home every day. I had almost escaped
when the flsh man remembered I had
no gravel to put in the glabo. That's
nob "dirt cheap,' either, in a flsh store.
After paying a drayman 75 cents to
haul the goldfish and 'trimmings' home
I find I'm out $14.35. I've often won
dprort why persons ¦who owned gold
fish scempil to guard them with siuch
carr. Now I know. They'rr looking
after a mighty valuable investment."
VIOLATORS OF EMIGRANT LAWS
DRIVEN FROM TRANBVAAL
By Associated Press.
PRETORIA, Dec. 29. — Tho Transvaal
government has lost no time In en
forcing the provisions of the Immigra
tion restriction act, which requires all
Asiatics In this country to register.
Several Brltali Indian leaders, In
cluding an eminent lawyer, who re
fused to comply with the conditions of
the act, have been ordered to leavo the
country within forty-eight hours, and
many others have been arrested.
A number of Chinese have been
similarly treated. Since the passage
of the aot 6000 residents of British In*
dia have left the colony and there are
7000 still here who refuse to register.
TOWN IN TREMOR OVER
TALES OF QUEER GHOSTS
Cool and Analytical Residents of Con.
nectlout Village Sure Weird
Spirits Are There — Odd
Noises Heard
TERRYVILLB, Conn., Dec 29.— As
strange a story as any the Society for
Psychological Research ever investigated
and vouched for by more witnesses than
usually testify to supernatural manifes
tations, lies beyond the wild yarns of
ghostly visitations and seventeenth cen
tury witchcraft that have been cent out
from this village in the last few days.
Many of the stories arc exaggerations and
distortions of the truth, but the ghosts
oi Town Hill are the principal subject of
discussion here; It is no strain on veracity
to say about going out o' nights, and it
Is simple, plain fact that there are at
least seven persons of education, culture
and refinement, none of them in tha
slightest degree a believer In spiritualism
or the supernatural, who will assure the
inquirer solemnly. In carefully chosen
language, that they have heard, not once,
but each of them many times, sounds of
footsteps when there was no person pres
ent to make the footsteps; sounds of
voices when there was no one visible and
thj ticking of a clock where thero was
no clock.
Tales Indirect
Any sort of a ghost story that one may
elect to listen to may be heard among
the gossips that gather around the vil
lage postoffice. In most cases the
delator had them at third of fourth hand.
Of this class Is the story that half the
village believes, that When a man— name
not given— was walking by tho old Morse
place on Town hill a few days ago he
saw a hat lying In the road. Stooping
to pick It up, thero Issued from beneath
the hat, in sepulchral tones as though
from the depths of the tomb, the warn
ing, "Don't touch that hat!" Pressed for
the name of the hero of this adventure,
the relator said sorze one had told it over
In tho livery stable, and that was as far
as It could be traced. Likewise, when one
of the group told of a man driving down
Town Hill road, whose horse refused to
go any further and exhibited symptoms
of fear when passing the old Wood house,
It was found to have been "told by some
one in the barber shop" who could not be
located.
It Is ,truo that the tradition that old
"Tinner" Morse, who died forty years
ago, still pounds tin in the woodshed
back of the old house, has been prevalent
for years, but Mrs. Joseph Sutphen, who
has lived in the house ten years, say the
"tinner" has never bothered her. And
the former Inhabitants of the Wood place
used to say they frequently heard a
sound like a man chopping In the cellar,
but the present tenants, a thrifty Polish
family, with an unspellable name, de
clare they have heard nothing to worry
them.
Fit Setting
One might search a long time and not
find as fitting a setting for a ghost story
a: the old Fenn house. Standing on the
crest of Town hill, where it overlooks
the broad valley of tho Poquabuck river,
It has been a landmark visible from miles
away for fully 175 years. Built In tne
decade between 1730 and 1740, Its eight
foot chimney breast and foot square hewn
timbers testify to the labor the early set
tlers lavished on their habitations. Stout
oak pins hold the Joists and rafters In
place, for nails were scarce and costly
when the Fenn house was built, and those
used to hold the siding and partition
boards in place are hand forged and
wrought to last through the centuries.
A cyclone would not injure the old Fenn
house — an earthquake, It would seem,
would scarcely damage It. In renovating
and adding to it its present owners have
reverently preserved the spirit of the
past, so that In all essentials the old
house still stands as it did through the
French and Indian war, the revolution
and the war of 1812. The barn, as old as
the house and floored with three-inch
hewn planks, stands another monument
to the builders of a dead century.
BANKER LOSES ALL IN
SERIES OF MISFORTUNES
William Adler of New Orleans Fails
in Business — Last Consignment
of Goods Sinks with His
Steamer
By Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 29.— Almost un
paralleled misfortunes have been heaped
in the short space of one week upon Wil
liam Adler, one of New Orleans' foremost
bankers and a leading wholesale grocer
of tho south.
The arrival of news today that Mr.
Adler is a shipwrecked refugee at Bellz,
British Honduras, added another chapter
to a record already that has shaken the
financial circles of New Orleans. Already
the bank has announced It must go out
o. business.
Mr. Adler's grocery firm, one of the
largest In the south, has gone into the
hands of a receiver; a load of groceries
consigned to Honduras, which Mr. Adler's
friends claimed were one of hla last
hopes of recouping his fortune, has been
lost by shipwreck, and tho steamer Alps,
carrying both "the groceries and Mr.
Adler and owned by him, is a total loss
by the same wreck.
By the merest Blip of chance the In
surance policy on the shipload of grocer-,
les was rendered worthless by failure of
premium payment.
Misfortune has also dealt a blow at
one of Mr. Adler's closest friends, Moses
Schwartz, a prominent New Orleans mer
chant who was with Mr. Adler on the
Alps and whose foundry here went Into
receivership shortly after the steamer
sailed.
The Alps lies on Glover's reef, nearly
fifty miles from the port she was making
for, Porto Cortez, Honduras.
W. E. Lawrence has been appointed
manager of the grocery firm of A. Adler
& Co., with instructions to put the busi
ness on its feet If possible. Eastern
creditors are heaylly interested In the
Adler firm.
Cannon in St. Louis
By Ainoclated Free*.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29. — Speaker Can
non and Thomas K. Nledringhaus of 1
St. Louis, former chairman of the Mis
souri state Republican committee, held
a conference tonight at the Planters'
hotel. Speaker Cannon arrived today
and did not register at tho hotel.
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AMERICAN NAVY'S GROWTH
AFFECTS FOREIGN FLEETS
England Must Drop Two Power Stand
ard if United States Pushes
Development of Fighting
Force
LONDON, Dec. 29. — The fact that the
United States is now recognized In Europe
as a first class naval power will have con
siderable effect on the two powir standard
which for some time has been the key
note of. British naval policy. The refer
enoe which Mr. Haldane, the secretary of
war, made to that subject the other night
will certainly be discussed and canvassed.
But It needs no prophet to foretell that If
America Is to be one of the powers in
cluded adherence to the two power Btand
ard will become Increasingly difficult and
costly.
There Is no doubt that hitherto the two
power standard has had reference mainly
to the European powers. The United
States had not been excluded, but its posi
tion Is so different from that of the
powers nearer home that its naval power
has never been regarded as a menace to
any European country.
Mr. Haldane pointed out that It would
become Increasingly difficult to maintain
the two power standard If Germany and
the United States were the two powers
whose navies were to be made the stand
ard. It may, however, be assumed that in
the future America will not be reckoned
on as one of these powers. If she chooses
to enter on a course of naval expansion
it would be hardly possible for Great
Britain to compete with her. Within
twenty or thirty years she will probably
have three times the population of the
United Kingdom, and to build fleets which
would equal or exceed both America's and
Germany's, as Mr. Haldean said, would
be a very difficult task. It will probably
be found, therefore, that In maintaining
the two power standard the British ad
miralty will have in view two European
powers.
Much Machinery Exported
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.— Record breaking
shipments of American agricultural ma
chinery are about to bo made to Europe,
six big steamers having been chartered
for the transportation of everything con
e-.vable used in farm work. During the
next four months $25,000,000 worth will be
shipped, much of It for Siberia.
Aged Archbishop Dead
HOBART, Tasmania,. Dec. 29.— Most
Rev. Daniel Murphy, archbtohop of Ho
bart, died today. He was the oldest Cath
olic prelate, having been consecrated Oc
tober 11, 1846.
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San Gabriel Wines for the Holidays
Send In your orders now for some of the oldest and purest wines produced In California. You have heard of the
excellence of the. wines made in days past by the mission priests In San Gabriel Valley? : Here you get the same
quality, the same richness, the same flavor — for • It's > made • from grapes ; from . the same vines. ,We make a spec-
ialty of case goods for eastern shipment. ¦ Telephone us : for special prices. .. ' ¦¦ *"•.: : > y ' "
We are leaders in the Wine and Liquor Business and always have a very ¦• largo stock of BONDED WHIS-
KIES, bottled under the supervision of the 'U.! S. GOVERNMENT, and the few we mention are too well known
to connoisseurs to ¦ need any comment. . y '¦.'¦", .. •'
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Our Wines and Liquors are Pure, are equaled by none and superior to all. ¦
. :;¦¦• Prices the lowest consistent with , reliable ,; goods. : >,"*•..' ..•'.-.,¦" . .;• : ' :¦-. '.( ¦ - . -"!.
Agent* for C. F. Eccard, KerenEnarh, (.or ninny, Rtaeln and Moselle Wine. Feist Bros. & Sons, Frankfort, O. SI.
llieln and Moselle Wine and Sparkling; Moselle. ; ' . ' ' N ... -'¦' '¦_¦¦¦ ' ' ;
v , Jos. Melczer & Company
w. h neTnd $&2?%L»**. ' 141-143-145-147 S. Main St., and 323 West 4th St.
GREAT AMOUNT OF WORK
I BEING DONE ON CANAL
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— The engineers
on the Panama canal are dealing in vast
figures these days, and the canal record,
Just received, conveys In a graphic man
ner an idea of the magnitude of the work
to be done upon the locks of the canal.
It Is eald, for Instance, that the amount
of concrete to be used In building these
locks would suffice to construct eight
room houses of the- generous size of 30x30
feet, witn two 6torles and basement and
with concrete floors and with concrete
roof, to the number of 22,842.
Allowing each of these houses a 75-foot
lot, they would make a continuous street
from New York to Philadelphia, with
enough houses left over to make a row
on one side of the street from Philadel
phia to Washington. The houses would
furnish suburban homes for 120,000 people,
or according to city standards would have
a population equal to that of the city of
Minneapolis.
CAPTURES MAN WANTED
FOR MURDER IN 1899
Not Probable That Prisoner Will Be
Prosecuted, as Public Opinion
Was Strongly in His
Favor
By Associated Praas.
REDDING, Dec. 29.— The sheriff of
Alameda county telegraphed today to
the sheriff of Shasta county that he had
captured In Oakland, William Johnston,
who stabbed W. E. C. Eddy to death In
a Redding saloon on Christmas day,
1899.
Johnston was pointed out to the Ala
meda county officer by an eyewitness of
the tragedy. District Attorney Tillot
son and Sheriff Montgomery have ad
vised that Johnston be released from
jail. It is doubtful whether the right
man is held and, furthermore, if the
man In Oakland jail Is Johnston, his
conviction at this late day would be im
probable, because even at the time of
the killing public opinion was In his
favor, Eddy having been abusing John
ston all evening and even throwing a
box of chips and a deck of cards in his
face just before the fatal stabbing oc
curred.
Steel Plant Resumes
NHWCASTLE, Pa., Dec. 29.— The
Shenango valley steel plant resumed op
erations here tonight, after an .idleness
of ten days. More tfr.m 2000 men are
affected.
Y. M. C. A. LEADERS HOLD
CONFERENCE IN NORTH
Students from All Parts of the Stato
Assemble at Pacific Grove to
Discuss Religious
Work
P.v Assorlator Press.
PACIFIC GROVE, Cal., Dec. 29,-Stu
dents from a.l parts of the state gathered
here today to participate in the annual
interunlverslty conference of the Y. M. C.
A. The president of the conference is
A. J. Elliott of Chicago, secretary of the
student department of the International
committee of -CO Y. M. C. A. Its secre
tary it H. F. Henderson of Los Angeles,
the state student secretary of the' Cali
fornia Y. M. C. A.
Seven of these conferences are annual
ly held in the United States, one for
several southern states now being in
session at Rustan, La. Among the nota
bles who will act as leavers this week in
Pacific Grove are Harry Arnold of New
York, secretary of the International com
mittee; J. L. Murray. New York'e travel
ing secretary of the student volunteer
movement; H. J. McCoy, general secre
tary; B. B. Wllcox, state secretary.
The conference met and organized early
this morning, holding subsequent meet
ings throughout the day.
LOS ANGELES BARTENDER
SHOOTS AT LIVERYMAN
Carl Anderson, Said to Hail from tha
City of Angels, Fires at Man
in Saloon at Marys.
vllle
By Associated Press.
MARYSVILLE, Dec. 29.— Carl Ander
son ot Los Angeles, a bartender, fired
a shot today at Al Poole, a prominent
liveryman, in a saloon opposite the Jail
on Third street. Poole Invited Ander
son to drink, and the latter replied by
shooting. -
The bullet hit the bar and was de
flected through the transom. Anderson
was disarmed by Poole and taken to tho
Jail, charged with assault with a deadly
weapon.
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That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE.
Look for the signature of E. W. GKOViti.
Used the world over to Cure a Cold in
One Day. 25c.